Rare squid spotted off California’s Central Coast
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Rare squid spotted off California’s Central Coast
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It’s everyone’s favorite time of year—the MBARI highlights video is here! Dive in with us for some of the most stunning deep-sea sightings we made in 2025 📽️✨️ ⁠ ⁠ This year, our team spotted ultra-black fishes, sinuous siphonophores, curious crabs, spectacular sponges, and so many more dazzling denizens of the deep. These fascinating finds underscore the remarkable diversity of life in the largest living space on Earth. ⁠ ⁠ 2025 marked the beginning of several significant chapters in MBARI’s w
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It’s everyone’s favorite time of year—the MBARI highlights video is here! Dive in with us for some of the most stunning deep-sea sightings we made in 2025 📽️✨️ ⁠ ⁠ This year, our team spotted ultra-black fishes, sinuous siphonophores, curious crabs, spectacular sponges, and so many more dazzling denizens of the deep. These fascinating finds underscore the remarkable diversity of life in the largest living space on Earth. ⁠ ⁠ 2025 marked the beginning of several significant chapters in MBARI’s w
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As we say goodbye to 2025, we’re reflecting on a year of dazzling discoveries.⁠ 💫 ⁠ Using advanced underwater robots, MBARI captured extraordinary 4K footage of deep-sea life that continues to inform our understanding of ocean health and connect audiences with Earth’s largest—and least explored—ecosystem. If you haven’t seen it already, head over to our YouTube Channel and watch the full 2025 highlights video, showcasing all the remarkable residents of the deep that we hope you fall in love wit
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As we say goodbye to 2025, we’re reflecting on a year of dazzling discoveries.⁠ 💫 ⁠ Using advanced underwater robots, MBARI captured extraordinary 4K footage of deep-sea life that continues to inform our understanding of ocean health and connect audiences with Earth’s largest—and least explored—ecosystem. If you haven’t seen it already, head over to our YouTube Channel and watch the full 2025 highlights video, showcasing all the remarkable residents of the deep that we hope you fall in love wit
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This Mother Went 4.5 Years Without Food 🐙
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This Mother Went 4.5 Years Without Food 🐙
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At home in the deep sea 🌊 The deep sea is the largest living space on Earth. Each dive into the ocean’s inky depths teaches us something new about this environment. MBARI’s advanced underwater technology is revealing the stunning community of life that thrives in the deep, including many species previously unknown to science. Over the past 38 years, MBARI researchers and our collaborators have discovered more than 250 new species. Studying our blue backyard has revealed our connection to the oc
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At home in the deep sea 🌊 The deep sea is the largest living space on Earth. Each dive into the ocean’s inky depths teaches us something new about this environment. MBARI’s advanced underwater technology is revealing the stunning community of life that thrives in the deep, including many species previously unknown to science. Over the past 38 years, MBARI researchers and our collaborators have discovered more than 250 new species. Studying our blue backyard has revealed our connection to the oc
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She Sat on Her Eggs for 4.5 Years. This Is What It Cost Her
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She Sat on Her Eggs for 4.5 Years. This Is What It Cost Her
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Deep-sea mom things 🦀🌊
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Deep-sea mom things 🦀🌊
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deepsea encounters 😰😨😱
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Squid life 🦑 The deep sea is challenging to study, and we only get brief glimpses into the behaviors of deep-sea animals. MBARI’s archive of thousands of hours of underwater video has helped illuminate life in the largest living space on Earth. MBARI researchers can document remarkable new species and observe how deep-sea animals feed, escape predators, and reproduce. Each observation logged by our ROVs provides another piece to the puzzle and helps improve our understanding of life in the ocea
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This Octopus Mom Guarded Her Eggs For 4.5 Years
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Why Is This Animal Called the “Vampire Squid from Hell”?
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Looking at delicate deep-sea drifters reveals adaptations to life under pressure. Deep-sea animals live under crushing amounts of pressure generated by the immense weight of the water above. Comb jellies are a diverse group of gelatinous animals found across a range of marine habitats, from the ocean’s sunlit surface to the abyssal seafloor. A new study published in Science today by scientists at the University of California, San Diego with an interdisciplinary team of researchers, including MBA
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Newly-discovered deep-sea snailfish is too cute, see the video #Shorts
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In our newest installment of deep-sea animals that dance better than you, we give you a spectacular star ⭐️💫 ⁠ This sand star (Luidia foliolata) was captured on camera in Monterey Bay at 398 meters (1,306 feet). Unlike their reef-dwelling cousins, these sea stars don't have suction cups on their tiny tube feet. Instead, they walk on shovel-shaped tube feet that make it easier to scuttle across the sandy seafloor and bury themselves in the sediment once they've found the right hiding spot. | MBA
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This Fish Looks Through Its Own Transparent Head ⚡
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Just another tiny deep-sea bestie 🥰⁠ ⁠ From icy polar zones to the darkest ocean depths, these miniature wonders can thrive in habitats where few other animals can survive. Amphipods are crustaceans often mistaken for tiny shrimp. They resemble shrimp in some ways, but they are laterally compressed and have no carapace.⁠ ⁠ Despite their diminutive size—most species grow no bigger than your fingernail—amphipods power ocean food webs in a big way by serving as prey for countless species of fishes
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Explore Sur Ridge with us. 🪸 Home to a fantastic array of deep-sea animals, this underwater rocky ridge is just 35 kilometers (about 22 miles) off the Big Sur coast and 800 meters (2,600 feet) below the Pacific’s surface. Researchers from MBARI and NOAA’s Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary first discovered this rich ecosystem in 2013 and continue to learn more about this fascinating deep-sea environment. | MBARI
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This Fish Sees Through Its Own Head #wrongbiology #marinemystery #deepsea #ocean #giantsquid
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Meet the engineering team behind one of MBARI’s new underwater imaging systems 🤖 🔧
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Why You Should Never Trust This Fish's Face
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This Deep-Sea Squid Has Elbows #shorts
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🦈 Monsters of the Deep! 😨 4 Strange Ocean Creatures You Won't Believe Exist #monsterofthedeep #mbari
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Deep-sea sparks 🤩💥✨ ⁠ Our researchers are often captivated by the beauty of deep-sea jellies, like this dazzling fireworks jelly (Halitrephes maasi) with its brightly colored tentacle tips. This species of hydromedusa is typically seen around 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) deep in Monterey Bay during the summer. Their bells can reach up to 10 centimeters (four inches) wide. | MBARI
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5 Deep Sea Nightmares That Are Real 😱 #deepsea #creatures
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This Octopus Mom Guarded Her Eggs for 53 Months 😳
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There is nothing quite like an octopus in the deep. 🐙⁠ ⁠ Although we often see these deep-sea octopods, we know little about many of the species that belong to the Bathypolypodinae subfamily. We typically find the species within this group walking along or swimming just above the seafloor, hunting for snails, crabs, and other small animals. | MBARI
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Meet your new deep-sea bestie 🤿🐠 The feisty fangtooth (Anoplogaster cornuta) is a small and efficient predator. Their gaping mouths, stubby fins, and mottled patterning suggest that these fish prefer to lurk and wait —until their prey swims too close, that is. Scientists believe that fangtooth fish rely on an excellent sense of touch instead of their eyesight. The pronounced dark line down their sides is a lateral line that senses even small movements around them. MBARI researchers have spotte
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This sea urchin is a deep-sea recycling champion ⁠♻️💫⁠ ⁠ The fragile pink sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus fragilis) is one of the most common neighbors MBARI encounters as we explore our blue backyard. Herds of fragile pink sea urchins roam the seafloor, shaping deep-sea ecosystems through constant foraging, much like wildebeests grazing across African grasslands. These tiny grazers move across the soft sediment, munching on dead kelp and other organic material. With each nibble, they make nutri
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This Creature Turns Inside Out To Survive
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Throwback to one of our earliest encounters with a deep-sea gulper eel 💙🎥 We were so enamored by the whiptail gulper eel (Saccopharynx lavenbergi) that this quintessential deep-sea dweller is featured in our logo. One of the first times we were lucky enough to observe one was this 1993 sighting at 880 meters (2,887 feet) deep in Monterey Canyon. In nearly four decades of deep-sea diving, we’ve only seen this species 18 times. MBARI researchers were exploring the midwater—the vast expanse of op
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